If you've grown up with the typical southern tomato-based BBQ sauce recipe, you might be looking for a new kind of sauce experience. Our Carolina Gold Sauce combines simple ingredients to make a high quality dipping, or basting sauce, with a little bit of heat and a punch of flavor.
After your first taste of South Carolina Gold BBQ Sauce, it is sure to become your favorite primary ingredient for any of your barbecue recipes.
The Origins of the Best Carolina BBQ Sauce
Your soon-to-be-favorite Carolina gold barbecue sauce recipe was brought to South Carolina by German immigrants who settled in America.
This tasty sauce traded the traditional tomato paste or ketchup-based sauce for a mustard base, which is the primary condiment in German cuisine. As a result, this easy recipe quickly became a local-favorite way of making a unique sauce. Today, you can find Carolina Mustard Barbecue Sauce in many BBQ restaurants or BBQ joints that are in the know.
However, our goal is to get you making your own sauce that can rival any other Carolina Gold BBQ Sauce recipe. To tell the truth, this is going to quickly become one of your favorite things! Let's get started on this delicious sauce recipe.
How To Make Carolina Gold Barbecue Sauce
The method couldn't be easier and only takes a few minutes to come together. Gather all of the barbecue sauce ingredients.
Place everything into a medium saucepan and whisk all the ingredients together over medium heat. It comes together very quickly, 3-4 minutes max. Taste for seasoning. Enjoy!
What meat does Carolina Gold Sauce go on?
This sweet and tangy barbecue sauce is reminiscent of honey mustard, so it goes well with chicken and pork dishes, as well as turkey, smoked sausage, and barbecue sandwiches. While it wouldn't traditionally be paired with beef brisket, it certainly wouldn't clash in flavor.
Carolina Gold Sauce goes great with these recipes...
- Pellet Grill Pulled Pork Recipe
- How To Smoke A Brisket On A Pellet Grill
- How Long to Smoke a 10 lb. Brisket
- Smoked Strawberry Barbecue Chicken Wings
- Texas Twinkies Recipe
- Juicy Grilled Pork Chops with Hot Honey
- Smoked Beef Tenderloin in Maple Shallot Marinade
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Best Carolina Gold Sauce Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 ½ c. classic yellow mustard sauce
- ¼ c. apple cider vinegar
- 1 T. tomato paste
- ½ c. cane sugar
- ¼ c. honey
- 1 t. Worcestershire sauce
- ½ t. Tabasco pepper sauce
- ½ t. dry mustard powder
- 1 t. onion powder
- 1 t. garlic powder
- ½ t. black pepper
- ¼ t. salt
Instructions
- Place everything into a medium saucepan and whisk all the ingredients
together over medium heat. (It comes together very quickly, 3-4 minutes
max) - Taste for seasoning.
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